Example sentences of "and [noun] [verb] [verb] up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My television harangued me to buy endless varieties of insecticide and creature-killer , whereas in Bali it is taboo to move into a new home before the geckos and house-spiders have taken up residence first . |
| 2 | " There are outside forces in Russia and China trying to stir up trouble for us here . " |
| 3 | In fact , Easy Rider was rather slow to catch on but when it finally caught the attention of the counter-culture , even the establishment newspapers and magazines began to offer up praise . |
| 4 | My father has been buying Margaret a designer wardrobe and escorting her to all the best restaurants and clubs and Suzie has taken up surf-boarding . |
| 5 | In August 1988 the CME and Reuters agreed to open up Globex to other exchanges , MATIF , etc . |